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20 June, 2022
Taxes to pay when selling a property in Catalonia
Are you looking for what taxes apply to the sale of a home in Catalonia? Do you want to know what the buyer and the seller pays? Here, we will clarify everything in order to you can know all the details. It’s common for buyers to add 10-15% on top of a property’s sale price – but that’s not go
Real Estate
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General
7 June, 2022
How to sell a luxury property
How to sell luxury houses and flats? Below we have created an article focused on teaching you how to sell luxury property effectively, just as we do at BCN Advisors. To hit your ideal selling price on a luxury property you’ll need intimate knowledge of the property and the ideal buyer – read on for
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23 May, 2022
Barcelona Property Market: Q1 of 2022 analysis
Are you looking to know more about the Barcelona real estate market in 2022? In the following lines we will do a fairly extensive analysis, in which we will review the most important data on the Barcelona house prices, in order to draw conclusions as for example whether it is a good time or not to s
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27 April, 2022
Bcn Advisors sells in record time the most expensive apartment in uptown Barcelona
Bcn Advisors has sold the most expensive flat so far this year 2022 in Barcelona’s Sant Gervasi district for close to 4 million euros in record time. Bcn Advisors, a real estate agency specialising in the luxury sector in Barcelona, has closed in April 2022 the sale of the most expensive apart
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1 February, 2022
Bcn Advisors appears in the ranking of the most expensive properties sold in 2021
The real estate agency Bcn Advisors has brokered and sold one of the most expensive properties in Spain in 2021, according to the ranking published by the economic newspaper ‘Expansión’. Bcn Advisors, a real estate agency specialising in the luxury sector and the most ‘prime’
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15 December, 2021
Real estate trends in Barcelona for 2022
Real estate is still seen as one of the most stable and profitable markets in Spain but as we have seen over the past two years, the industry is still susceptible to cyclical changes.What can we expect from 2022? As was the case across the world, the health crisis triggered changes in many different
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9 December, 2021
Barcelona Property Market Q3 2021
The latest figures published by the Spanish Institute of Statistics (INE) show quite clearly that property buyers are returning to Barcelona. the number of sales in the third quarter of 2021 in the province of Barcelona is up by almost 57% when compared to the third quarter of 2020. Property sales i
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30 November, 2021
Bcn Advisors shares its vision of the luxury real estate market in Barcelona in ‘Financial Times’
Francisco Nathurmal, founder and CEO of Bcn Advisors, is featured in an article in the prestigious ‘Financial Times’ newspaper on the luxury real estate market in Barcelona. In conversation with journalist Ian Mount, Nathurmal states that demand outstrips offer in this sector, thanks to
Luxury
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2 November, 2021
New Spanish property law from January 2022
New rules to prevent tax evasion in Spain will come into force from 1 January 2022. Further to a European directive of July 2016, the Spanish government has approved Law 11/2021, which includes measures to prevent and combat tax fraud and strengthen tax control. The law brings with it consequences f
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14 October, 2021
Digital Nomads and the Barcelona Real Estate Market
As companies begin to embrace the WFH (Work From Home) phenomenon following the Covid-19 health crisis, the Barcelona real estate sector is also preparing for change. The industry is now looking to accommodate the rise of the ‘digital nomad’, working professionals who choose to work remotely in diff
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1 October, 2021
Foreign buyers start to return to Barcelona
The prediction that with the lifting of travel restrictions both the tourists and the foreign property buyers in Spain would begin to return appears to be coming true, bringing with it good news for both the Spanish economy and the property sector. Although it may take some time for the numbers of p
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7 July, 2021
The Barcelona Property Market Q1 & Q2 2021
Although there is still some uncertainty, the latest figures available from the Spanish National Statistics Institute corroborate the good economic predictions and suggest that the property market is also on the road to recovery. We analyse the situation in Barcelona, district by district, in terms
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28 June, 2021
What does working from home mean for the Spanish property market?
Working from home is here to stay. The Coronavirus pandemic has led to an unprecedented number of empty offices across Spain, with many employees being forced to work from home for more than a year. While some workers are now slowly beginning to go back to the office, it is highly unlikely that comm
Real Estate
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1 June, 2021
What low interest rates mean for the Spanish property market
If you are thinking of buying or selling a property in Spain, it is worth knowing what effect the rise and fall of interest rates has on your next move. In the last few years, low interest rates have meant more prospective home buyers entering the Spanish property market. Besides, from a seller’s pe
Real Estate
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19 May, 2021
Top tips for selling your property in a strong sellers’ market
If you are thinking about selling your home in Barcelona, now could be an opportune time, with agents and portals reporting record numbers of buyers enquiring about properties. Pent up demand during a year of lockdowns and restrictions is being reflected in one of the strongest sellers’ markets in y
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28 April, 2021
The Barcelona Property Market Q1 2021
After an extraordinary twelve months or so, there is much uncertainty as to what lies ahead for the Spanish property market. Covid-19 has inevitably had a major impact on the sector with prices falling in most areas midst decreasing demand and the expectation is that this will continue yet further u
Real Estate
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22 March, 2021
How Barcelona will continue to be a key hub for international buyers
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected just about every industry and aspect of our personal and professional lives. The Barcelona property market has been no exception. During 2020 the market slowed significantly. Despite the drop in sales, there is room for optimism as we enter a new era for the sector
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24 February, 2021
What impact will the COVID-19 vaccine have on the Spanish property market?
The Spanish government has announced that it plans to vaccinate 70% of the population by the summer. Much depends on the availability of the vaccines and the ability of Spain’s regional governments to administer them, however. The vaccination rollout has not been the smoothest of rides so far, but t
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19 January, 2021
Is it a good time to buy or sell a house in Barcelona?
Will house prices in Barcelona continue to fall? Is it better to buy now or wait? Do I sell my apartment as soon as possible at a higher price than in the next few months? These are the key questions in the real estate market and the ones we receive daily at Bcn Advisors. Although prices will contin
Real Estate
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22 December, 2020
The Spanish Real Estate Market in 2021
Like all of us, the Spanish real estate sector has experienced a turbulent year in 2020. However, it has faced it with much more solid foundations than in the previous crisis of 2008, which foresees the next few years full of opportunities for buyers and sellers. Through the analysis of this year
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15 May, 2020
Bcn Advisors closes sale of luxury penthouse during confinement
The real estate agency Bcn Advisors, specialized in the luxury sector in Barcelona, has managed to close the sale of a penthouse worth 1,380,000 euros during Covid-19 lockdown period. Bcn Advisors has quickly adapted to the needs and demands resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. Thanks to the
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4 May, 2020
The Real Estate Sector Post-COVID-19: A New Paradigm
The entire world economy has entered into a new period after the confinement measures adopted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The different industries will gradually recover their activity towards a normality that will not come until the vaccine is available. Francisco Nathurmal, CEO and founder of Bcn Ad
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5 March, 2020
Foreign Buyers in Catalonia: Figures Keep Growing
When looking at 2019 figures, 12.46% of all properties sold in Catalonia in 2019 were purchased by foreigners, higher than in 2018 when the proportion was 11.74% The latest data from the Spanish Land Registry shows that just over 500,000 properties were sold throughout Spain during 2019, with foreig
Inversión
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13 February, 2020
The Barcelona Property Market 2019/2020
Barcelona continues to attract buyers from all over the world, thanks to its exceptional quality of life and growing number of investment opportunities. The city now ranks seventh in the world in terms of attracting foreign investment projects, according to KPMG’s Global Cities Investment Moni
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15 January, 2020
Brits, Brexit & Barcelona
Brexit. A word that has dominated British politics for more than three and a half years. The political landscape in the UK was changed forever since June of 2016 when 52% of British citizens voted to leave the EU in a referendum, and now, it seems, Britain’s departure is finally in sight. Following
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2 December, 2019
The Future of the Barcelona Property Market
2017 and 2018 were exceptional years for the Barcelona property market. But can the current demand for homes in Catalonia’s capital last? The city’s economy continues to be on an upward trend, unemployment is falling and there are extremely competitive mortgage rates to be found. Overall, forecaste
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